From my favorite movies..

Boring

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

It was four years ago I saw this at school. I remembered my Chinese language teacher brought the DVD or something for the class to watch. I know some of my classmates at that time were not interested in watching.Maybe a clash of East meets West is at times...a little surreal and weird for some of us. To admit, I was one of those before the movie rolled in because given Mandarin is my mother tongue (and English is my first language), trying to watch it playing it out on Hollywood...is kind of funny for me. I mean, trying to watch people attempting to have Chinese accents in the movies especially the foreigners...I don't even know whether to laugh at them or shake my head.But I saw it anyway. And I realised that satire is practically everywhere in the movie. Comedy is involved at the same time as well.For someone like me who have to always brace herself for anything on the screen which may be a bit over the hill in terms of how others view the Chinese language except for those who had been exposed to the language throughout their entire lifetime (I am one of those), I can only say satire is all around in this movie.

This movie was supposed to show before Chinese new year, a typical movie category which is win laugh of audiences. The bottom line is to let people have a happy new year.So, it might not have much of elements we'd like to see in Oscars. Nevertheless, it is worth watching ... if you can understand Chinese well. Most of the dialog can't be translated to English without losing its real meaning. Some laughters even can't be understand without really live in China in recent years. After all, it is a Chinese movie.I've seen much worse Hollywood movies. After watching it, you basically forget what you've just seen. I sleep over some 'famous' ones as well. At least for this movie, you will remember several of its dialogs, at least within Chinese society.

Years ago my high school economics teacher held up a tin toy car with wooden wheels. It was the typical Japanese product of its day. "Beware of people who can do this," he told us. The class did not understand his words until he turned the car over to reveal that it had been made from a Schlitz beer can. The rest of Japanese ingenuity and production is history.The movie Da wan (Big Shot's Funeral) carries a similar message. Though they may be behind, the Chinese can catch on quickly, particularly to the world of Madison Avenue as illustrated by this hilarious movie where hype and commercialism run amok. This movie reminds me of the 50's si/fi novel "Space Merchants" (Gravy Planet) by Pohl and Kornbluth in which an ad agency gets the exclusive rights to advertise products on the planet Venus. The unconscionable excess on both Venus and in China say much about us as consumers who would rather be entertained than informed.Sutherland, always good, is excellent here. I am confident the low rating for this film is because of its subtitles, but they are not a bother and are part of the humor.

Definitely a Chinese Movie for CHINESE watch it if you are mandarin speaker, otherwise, don't touch it a lots of things was contained in this comedy which couldn't be understood by forign language speakers just a suggestion